What idea is more beguiling than the notion of lightsome spirits, free of time and space and human weakness, hovering between us and all harm?.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

Accordingly the Frenchman is lightsome and buoyant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference

But then that lovely and lightsome little figure of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference

Behold, the throng was moving with a lightsome step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Carrie] Reference

“Yes, she is gone,” I said, trying to be lightsome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erema] Reference

If thy eye be single, thy whole body shall be lightsome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference

Secretly she was delighted at her friend's lightsome mood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference

Then, away with it, and let us have a more lightsome spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference

If one only had just a little to eat on such a lightsome day!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunger] Reference

But what is lightsome and blithe in her, was debonaire in him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XVIII] Reference

Now nothing can enlighten others unless it be lightsome in itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

"You won't find life so lightsome when his eagle eye discovers you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Pat at School] Reference

"Lighters; that is lightsome bodies, or instruments that show light.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference

It was a child singing a merry, lightsome air; there was no other sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Man] Reference

The epithet is used to describe the lightsome and genial tone of Horace's poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [MacMillan's Reading Books Book V] Reference

Thereby do the mind and duty answer one another, as the eye and a lightsome body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

The task of gathering old traditionary song is surely a pleasant and a lightsome one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851] Reference

The last few minutes had improved his spirits remarkably, and he was quite lightsome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Dorrit] Reference

A sweet, unwonted mood, a feeling of lightsome happy-go-luckiness took possession of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunger] Reference

If thy eye be single, thy whole body will be lightsome: but if it be evil, thy body also will be darksome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference

Is this the lightsome pair whose wedding was so merry, and have the young couple indeed grown old so soon!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches by Boz] Reference

“Mony a dainty ane,” said Madge; “and blithely can I sing them, for lightsome sangs make merry gate.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

He entered, expecting to indulge in an evening of lightsome frolic, and then lose track of the newcomer forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Carrie] Reference

I declined it of course, with all the courtesy I could put into my manner; she danced off heedless and lightsome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

The inquiry is, What is the most proper, lightsome, and convenient way of declaring the meaning of these expressions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference

The justices of the Lord are right, rejoicing hearts: the commandment of the Lord is lightsome, enlightening the eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference

However dark the habitation of the mole to our eyes, yet the animal itself finds the apartment sufficiently lightsome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicar of Wakefield] Reference

Give us enlivening, lightsome airs, to which our souls shall, on a sudden, begin to dance, keeping step with the angels!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference

We become physically nimble and lightsome; we tread on air; life is no longer irksome, and we think it will never be so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature] Reference

The truth is, that this goodly drummer carried the doom of all enduring relationships in his own lightsome manner and unstable fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Carrie] Reference

Even granted that it is entirely unaffected by its lower, why, still, should it not see like an eye, ensouled as it is, all lightsome?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

Of that lightsome band Will Pitts and John Briggs still remained, with half a dozen others — schoolmates of the less adventurous sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference

From the hall you ascend by a handsome staircase to the library, a large and lightsome room, well stored with books in various languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference

If then thy whole body be lightsome, having no part of darkness: the whole shall be lightsome and, as a bright lamp, shall enlighten thee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference

Beneath, the scene was open and lightsome, and the robin redbreast was chirping his best, to atone for the absence of all other choristers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference

In the next place, for the lightsome passion of joy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogotional] Reference